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LIMONOV: THE BALLAD OF EDDIE (Dec 4, France)
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ben and viktoria on the set of limonov: the ballad of eddie
#ben whishaw#limonov: the ballad of eddie#kirill serebrennikov#viktoria miroshnichenko#tags aren't working for me so idk if anyone has already posted this lol
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Beyond repulsed that Ben Whishaw has agreed to whitewash a literal russian nazi in Limonov: The Ballad. A nazi whose pathetic existence would be forgotten in a couple of years unless russian director Kiril Serebrennikov decided to immortalize the romanticized version of him and market it to the festival crowd as a story of a rebel and avant-garde rock star. The Cannes Film Festival made a huge mistake by including this film in its program. Last time, Serebrennikov used the Cannes platform to advocate for lifting the sanctions from Roman Abramovich (a notorious russian oligarch) and portray russian soldiers as victims of russian war against Ukraine.
#limonov#the ballad of eddie#kiril serebrennikov#limonov: the ballad#cannes#ben whishaw#russian war against ukraine#artistic freedom my ass#am i writing it because i know that soon enough my feed will be full of edgy ben whishaw gifs as he plays limonov
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Looking good Mr. Whishaw
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LIMONOV
Quando si conversa di un film, tratto da un libro, è inevitabile che qualcuno si interroghi se il film sia meglio o peggio del libro e viceversa. Allora sgombriamo subito il campo dall’equivoco: un film è un film e un libro è un libro, quindi niente paragoni. “Limonov” (il film) di Kirill Serebrennikov, se non è un capolavoro, va molto vicino ad esserlo. Com’è noto (almeno a chi ha letto il libro di Emmanuel Carrère), Eduard (Eddie) Limonov è stato un poeta, un dissidente sovietico, un rivoltoso, un sognatore, un teppista, un leader politico, ma anche un maggiordomo, un metalmeccanico, un senza fissa dimora. A raccontarne la storia (stavo per scrivere la ballata e forse non sbagliavo) è stato Emmanuel Carrère nell’omonimo libro di qualche anno fa (edito in Italia da Adelphi) e ora la stessa storia la riscrive, con grande perizia narrativa cinematografica, Kirill Serebrennikov che riesce nell’impresa di raccontare la profonda anima russa di Limonov e allo stesso tempo riesce a ritagliare, con altrettanto spessore poetico, la figura del rivoltoso, quello che considerava i lavoratori “i cornuti della storia”, quello che sta con “i rossi, i neri, i gay, i portoricani, ossia con chi non ha niente da perdere”. Limonov nel 1974 lascia l’Unione Sovietica e le ristrette vedute di un ambiente intellettuale e dissidente sempre troppo ancorato ai riti, ai temi e alla poesia della tradizione in un ambiente soffocante e privo di grandi stimoli. La sua destinazione è la New York psichedelica e decadente degli anni Settanta, dove conduce una sregolatissima vita, ma sempre innervata della sua poesia, a contatto con fotomodelle e puttane, con una po’ prevedibile, benché adeguatamente distorta, “Walk on the Wilde Side” che fa da colonna sonora. Come si dice in questi casi, Limonov ama essere rotto a tutte le esperienze sia letterarie che sessuali e in questo, occorre dire, assomiglia molto ai bohémien di ogni latitudine e di ogni periodo, ma quel che di nuovo sembra portare il suo personaggio è una non-visione del mondo, sostituita da un lucido delirio guidato da un sano desiderio di sovversione che, parafrasando Leo Trotskj potremmo chiamare “sovversione permanente”. Ma tanto è forte la sete di rivolta, tanto è irresistibile il richiamo della (santa o meno) madre Russia. Tornato nella Mosca della Perestrojka, Limonov, inquieto poeta agit-prop, anarchico e ribelle come sempre, crea un movimento bolscevico-nazionalista più vicino alla cultura punk che a quella patriottica, movimento col quale partecipò fattivamente all’assalto al parlamento di Mosca nel settembre del 1993. Del resto il KGB lo temette sempre, proprio in virtù della sua difficile collocazione all’interno di un profilo di dissidente tradizionalmente inteso. Occorre aggiungere, e non è una questione di poco conto, che il titolo originale del film è “Limonov: the ballad”, titolo che indica molto più efficacemente, che non quello della versione italiana, che Serebrennikov abbia inteso girare un film sul personaggio, più che sulla sua epoca, e che i fatti e le cronache di quegli anni non hanno avuto una specifica rilevanza, poiché in altre epoche Limonov avrebbe trovato altre motivazioni ma sarebbe rimasto un poeta dall’anima tempestosa. Ricordiamo che Serebrennikov, da sempre in contrasto col regime di Putin, è stato costretto ad interrompere la lavorazione del film a causa dell’invasione dell’Ucraina. “Se i tuoi eroi sono Jim Morrison, Lenin, Mishima, Baader, sei già membro del nostro partito…” urla Limonov al suo esercito di disperati, quanti di noi, sono potenzialmente parte del suo partito?
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Production has started on 'Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie’ starring Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw to Play Russian Dissident Eduard Limonov in New Film From Kirill Serebrennikov
Versatile British actor Ben Whishaw, best known globally for playing Q in five James Bond films, has been cast in what’s bound to be the one of the most complex roles of his career.
The actor will play the titular character in “Limonov, The Ballad of Eddie,” a new English-language film by revered Russian auteur Kirill Serebrennikov (“Petrov’s Flu,” “Leto”), about radical Russian poet and political dissident Eduard Limonov.
“Limonov” delves into the story of Eduard Limonov, who lived many lives. He was an underground writer in the Soviet Union who escaped to the U.S. where he became a punk-poet and also a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. “Eddie” then became a literary sensation in Paris before returning to Russia where he morphed into a charismatic dissident party leader with rock star status, and incarcerated by Vladimir Putin.
Read the rest here at Variety
Source: Ben Whishaw News @WhishawUpdates
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i am literally going to have a fucking aneurism 🙃🙃🙃
(also......for those who don’t know............”national bolshevism” is pretty much a pastiche of “national socialism” which, is........you know...............)
also, more on eduard limonov: https://slate.com/culture/2003/02/the-parable-of-a-fascist-writer.html
#~the ''nostalgic'' national bolshevik party~ like hoooooly shit..............#russia#ukraine#article
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there is literally not a single person in this world who shares my excitement for Limonov trailer. Italian trailer just dropped and it is literally "christmas for russian chronically online millenials who love Ben Whishaw" and I'm the only one person who fits this criteria. Maybe you can share this moment with me?
I still can not believe that creator of one the most popular russian 2010s comedy web series punches Ben in the face, there will also be one the main actors from cringey and cult classic sketch show from 2000s who plays one of the MOST SIGNIFICANT soviet poet, and there is also Ben who awkwardly writes EЛЕНА on the wall with the clumsiness of the letters only the non russian speaker has. And also damn, he didnt have to look so mesmerizing and beautiful as mfkin nazi Limonov with all of his hilarious hairstyles! I will not be able to survive the encounter with this crazy cinematic monster. (my favourite band Shortparis will also be participating as usual but that is whole another story)
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I’m sharing this moment with you!!!!! (though not Russian and not millennial)
His Hair!
The punch ���� part
The ЕЛЕНА part (tw blood)
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📸 from Limonov
#ben whishaw#viktoria miroshnichenko#Виктория Мирошниченко#kirill serebrennikov#limonov: the ballad of eddie#Limonov
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The 138-minute Italian-French-Spanish biographical drama Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024) has won the Grand Prize for Masterful Literary Adaptation at the CineLibri international feature film competition in Sofia
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Last year when limonov's project was unveiled, Kirill got a lot of backlash for doing a movie about that persona and so did Ben for taking on that role. Do you think the same thing will happen now that the movie is going to be released soon? ( I think people are just overreacting and being overly sensitive about the matter since it's just a movie about a certain person (good or bad, some stories need to be told anyway and movies are there to depict them)
yeah limonov was a very complicated guy, full of contradictory beliefs, and people are deffo going to be twats and pearl clutch about it when the ballad of eddie comes out because they think making a film = cosigning 100% of that person's beliefs. but like you say, if we only made biopics about perfect pure people we would have no films because no one is perfect. it is impossible.
i hope the fandom just ignores anyone starting drama tbh, because it's all just outrage culture. people get addicted to the endorphin rush they get from performatively taking offense on social media and getting to be the Very Special Perfect Pure Little Guy. it's why you see people nitpicking everything about someone on "the other side" of a political viewpoint while turning a blind-eye to the exact same things done by people they like. it's never about the actual beliefs or actions, it's just about getting lots of interactions and notifications and being holier than thou.
it's like getting mad at someone for portraying a nazi in a historical film. like babie, depicting someone doesn't mean you think they're a good person!
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LIMONOV: THE BALLAD OF EDDIE
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